English translated dating sims

Here’s the original interview with the always cheerful Mrs Gallant, the queen of funny dating sims AAR. Angie Gallant : Well, I am a 31 year old mother of one from Texas. I had heard of and seen some of the games targetting men, but Angelique was the first dating sim for women that I heard about.

For the french translation and a brief presentation, this way please. Tokimeki Memorial Girl is right there, Hatoful Boyfriend the pigeon dating-sim is over there, and if you want to know whether Jane Austen’s works translate well in videogames, look no further than her Matches & Matrimony AAR. I’m a cancer survivor, an avid gamer, and I do quality assurance by day and post silly stuff to the internet by night. Even though it wasn’t translated into English, I was fascinated enough with the concept to give it a try, using a Geocities fansite to navigate the Japanese menus.

Can people without much imagination like me enjoy the genre ?

Oh, I just always fill in the gaps with my own character stories any time I play a video game, it’s how I interact with the medium.

Knowing that they are getting a different reaction because they chose to kill the foozle instead of saving it can help satisfy that.

It also makes it more shocking when a storyline turns sour, like with Saeki constantly hitting Balls Mahoney over the course of Tokimeki Girls Side 2.

I don’t think I could fully enjoy something if I couldn’t make fun of it, but I also think that my joking about something would fall flat if some part of me didn’t love it.

" I’ve also used Bollocks Mahoney for a Regency-era game and Kintama Mahoney for one set in ancient Japan. Do you feel there’s a real potential in cross-breeding the dating genre with more mainstream genres ?

The Personas, most Bioware games or even the Sims do that to an extent, but do you think there’s more to explore ? There’s very few games where you don’t interact with friendly characters, and adding relationship mechanics where their reaction to you changes based on your choices can breathe some life into them when it’s done right.

Conception II has some dating sim elements to it, Persona is the same though more friend sim. You could always import some Japanese games and see if anyone's translated it to English, bit of a pain since you need to keep referencing the translations, but possible since Vita games are region free! 0.

Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters. This genre is most established in Japan, and is mostly made up of visual novels and simulation games; particularly dating sims and life simulation games.